Comments on: Women in science and technology, Part 3 http://sophielagace.net/2009/03/10/women-in-science-and-technology-part-3/ I think globally and work locally -- in the Pacific Northwest Sun, 07 Aug 2011 04:46:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Women in science and technology, Part 4 « Continental Shelf http://sophielagace.net/2009/03/10/women-in-science-and-technology-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-566 Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:01:52 +0000 http://sophielagace.net/?p=1025#comment-566 [...] March, 2009 by Sophie LagacĂ© (Continuing the discussion of women in science and technology from Part 3 last week, and leading up to Ada Lovelace [...]

]]> By: Kym http://sophielagace.net/2009/03/10/women-in-science-and-technology-part-3/comment-page-1/#comment-520 Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:47:22 +0000 http://sophielagace.net/?p=1025#comment-520 I think most men fall into that “I don’t notice” category. I know my husband, he mostly doesn’t pay attention–which is good when he does things like choose lab partners etc. He often had women in his study groups and thought no more about it. But he sometimes can’t see beyond his thought patterns either.

Once on our local road which is maintained privately. He was acting head of the group and he was wondering aloud to me who could he get to be in charge of a certain section. I sat there flabbergasted because he never named the most obvious candidate, the woman who sat beside him at road meetings and worked harder and was better informed than anyone else but him. When I asked him why, he blushed. He just “hadn’t thought of a woman in charge of something like that.” Part of it is the woman he is married to. I’m not into tools and machines and part of that is society.

He, like most men I’ve met, are willing though–he quickly asked the woman to do the job and she is now basically head of the road committee. We just have to keep gently reminding them that women are capable of doing jobs as well as men.

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